by Nia Beynon | Dec 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Pivotal to the plot of The Winter Waif is a sewing machine that almost becomes a character in the story itself. My great-grandmother, Mary Phillips née Harman, was a seamstress of sorts. She owned a Singer treadle sewing machine which I only really got to see after...
by jenna | Dec 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Am I alone in believing that our natural skills manifest themselves in their own time? You could drum hundreds of hours of algebra into me as a kid and I’d still be perplexed and left wondering what I was supposed to do with it. Ask me to write an essay on the most...
by Nia Beynon | Nov 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Even though my new novel, How Not to Murder Your Ex contains a dead body, a car chase and a psychotic killer, it is really – at its heart – a love letter to female friendship. It tells the story of Clio, who has told everyone in her small seaside town that she wants...
by Nia Beynon | Nov 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here are the characters of The Vintage Village Bake Off, the Parkin siblings, who are now in their seventies. Hattie Hattie still calls herself Mrs Bowen, despite her marriage to Geoffrey being over for a year. Although he left her for a woman at the bowling club,...
by Claire | Nov 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Erin Litteken discusses the inspiration behind her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv on Holodomor Remembrance Day My fascination with Ukraine sparked at my great-grandmother’s knee, listening to the tales she wove of both her life there and the perilous...
by jenna | Nov 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Life in the High Alps A long time ago I did a degree in French and German, but when I finished I couldn’t get a job. In consequence I thought it would be a good idea to go to a different country and learn another language so as to make myself more marketable....
